UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he heard “unimaginable” accounts of atrocities during a visit Monday to Bangladesh’s refugee camps and called for Myanmar to be held responsible for “crimes” against the Rohingya. Guterres described the situation for the persecuted Muslim minority as “a humanitarian and human rights nightmare” before touring makeshift shelters crammed with people […]
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UN to get access to war-stricken Rakhine state in Myanmar
The United Nations said Myanmar’s government agreed Thursday to grant it access to crisis-hit Rakhine state after months of wrangling over how to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees. The western state has been largely sealed off after a bloody military-led campaign last year that has forced some 700,000 Rohingya to flee to […]
Priyanka urges world to support Rohingya refugees
DHAKA: Bollywood actress and global UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights Priyanka Chopra on Thursday asked the international community to support Rohingya refugees, especially women and children. During her recent field trip to Bangladesh, Priyanka said that “Refugee children are the world’s responsibility because they don’t have anywhere to go. They don’t have anything they […]
Priyanka Chopra visits Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh
DHAKA: Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra on Monday visited Cox’s Bazar Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh as UNICEF’s goodwill ambassador. Priyanka posted details of her refugee camp visit on her Instagram. She said that nine months after they were displaced from Myanmar, Rohingya children were “still highly vulnerable” in overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh. https://www.instagram.com/p/BjCogFUjjff/?hl=en&taken-by=priyankachopra “In […]
‘Ethnic cleansing’ of Myanmar’s Rohingya continues: UN
BURMA: Myanmar is continuing its “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya with a “campaign of terror and forced starvation” in Rakhine state, a UN human rights envoy said on Tuesday, six months after a military crackdown sparked a mass exodus of the Muslim minority. Some 700,000 Rohingya have fled over the border to Bangladesh since violence […]
Bangladesh detains activist accused of rallying Rohingya
A Muslim activist accused of campaigning in refugee camps for the unconditional return of displaced Rohingya to Myanmar has been arrested in Bangladesh, police said. More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since August 25, when coordinated attacks by the Rohingya insurgency prompted a massive crackdown on the Muslim minority by the Myanmar military. […]